Baladas de Oro

In Venezuela's ordering this is number 42 of 76, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Baladas de Oro is the only station in Venezuela whose first tag is amor sólo música romántica, out of 76 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Venezuela does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only amor sólo música romántica station.

Baladas de Oro streams at 96 kbps, under Venezuela's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

Its audio comes straight from usa3.fastcast4u.com, an address unique to this entry in Venezuela's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.